Do you feel the baby move during a contraction?

FTM here and I am just in pre labor or maybe even labor bewilderment. I have so many darn symptoms but none equal the "contractions lasting 45 seconds and 5 minutes apart for an hour" like the doctor says you have to have in order to go to the hospital.

So the newest thing is I think I feel my stomach tighten and then the baby moves. Or is it just the baby moving? Those who have given birth what do you think? Have you experienced this?

I am almost to the end of my rope with this pre-labor crap. I feel like I've been dealing with it for weeks now!

It just depends on your LO. Both of mine moved during contractions, usually more towards the tail-end of them when my uterus started letting up.

If you're wondering if it is a contraction you feel, just feel around your whole stomach. There will be space where baby isn't, just find that before your next contraction. It will be soft and smushy. When you think you're having one, feel the same spot. If it's really hard, it's a contraction. If it's not, you're probably feeling baby balling up somewhere.

GL. I know how much all the pre-labor crap sucks. I've been having it for a while now.

If you don't feel the baby move during a contraction, it doesnt mean he/she isn't moving--just that the muscles are so tight you can't feel it. That's what my doctor said anyway. Usually after i have a strong contraction (which i've been having for WEEKS now) my baby kicks the crap out of me, like 'what are you doing to me mama! that hurts!"

Last night when I went to bed I was having contractions until about 2am. They were pretty frequent and I was waiting for them to get stronger. They hurt pretty badly and much worse on the ones that the LO decided to kick back. I think she was annoyed that my stomach was getting hard around her. I was really hoping that at some point I was going to be going to the hospital to have this LO. I want her to come out a few days early like her older sister but so much for that. I think she wants to be in forever.